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Why less than 1% of incubated start-ups get VC funding (ENTREPRENEUR)

Over the last 5 years or so, India has seen the emergence of a number of private and government-supported accelerators and incubators. Many of them have run a few cycles and have now fine-tuned their models and programs. Quite a few of them have very good and solid programs.

Investors, both in India and abroad, are now looking towards alternative assets in their portfolio, apart from the conventional real estate; or even mutual funds, stocks and bonds as a means to multiply their savings. But has it ever crossed your mind to invest in a start-up…? If not, you could be missing out on ‘something big’.

How Startups Can Attract Top Talent Without Worrying About The Money (INC42)

Someone has very rightly said, “Great vision without great people is irrelevant“. But being a startup, hiring good people might prove to be a struggle, since you neither have the cash, nor a fancy office to get the attention of the kind of people you are looking for.

It’s been barely 5 months since I shared my first article on n-Commerce(or neighbourhood commerce), a term I coined keeping in mind the changing market dynamics in the e-commerce space. But, in the little time ever since, the market already seems to have taken a quantum leap with new players making their foray to cash in on the big opportunity.

India Inc’s Innovators Are Setting The Stage For The Ecosystem (Inc42)

Innovation or doing things differently is something that has set the momentum of the “startup scene” in India. It is because of thinking differently, the “old wine in a new bottle”syndrome that has revamped and fuelled the success of top startups in the country today.

Leverage Networking to Accelerate the Growth of Your Startup (iamWire)

To be successful, you have to be able to relate to people; they have to be satisfied with your personality to be able to do business with you and to build a relationship with mutual trust.

– George Ross

Anyone who runs a business will tell you how true the aforementioned quote is. Small or big, networking is crucial for all businesses, more so for startups, since they need to be built right from scratch.

Post Enrollment with GHV Accelerator, MyTaxiIndia gearing up to bring Japanese Taxi experience for its Indian Customers (Indianbizparty)

MyTaxiIndia was selected by Gurgaon-based Green House Ventures (GHV) Accelerator for a 12 months 10x-growth program where they secured 100,000 US$ with this unbarring. As part of the Program, the core team was taken for a week long Program in Tokyo, Japan to understand the Japanese taxi business.